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 Madrid (AFP) Sept 29, 2009 
Environmentalists dressed as giant ears of corn Tuesday asked for "agricultural asylum" in the French embassy in Madrid in a protest over genetically modified crops. The environmental organisation Friends of the Earth organised the symbolic act to protest Spain's "large-scale" production of genetically modified corn, which is banned in France. Around 20 protesters from several European ... read more
Buenos Aires (UPI) Oct 1, 2009 Argentina revamped the government's agriculture administration in a bid to calm farmers who are angry over the farm taxation policies of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. The new Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food will take over from an Agriculture Secretariat that so far has worked within the Ministry of Production. Argentine Cabinet Chief Anibal Fernandez annou ... more
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Tegucigalpa, Honduras (UPI) Oct 1, 2009 Honduran troops and police detained dozens of supporters of ousted President Jose Manuel Zelaya in a raid on a farmers' organization building in the capital as Zelaya remained holed up in the Brazilian Embassy. The raid on the National Agrarian Institute building dashed hopes that the de facto government of President Roberto Micheletti was softening its position toward Zelaya and openin ... more  
Quang Nam, Vietnam (AFP) Oct 1, 2009Vietnam on Thursday intensified efforts to get food to stranded victims of Typhoon Ketsana, one of the worst disasters to hit the country in recent years, officials said. The storm killed at least 92 people and left 19 missing, according to the latest toll from the national flood and storm control committee in Hanoi. Some areas remained surrounded by floodwaters but military helicopters ... more 
Milwaukee (UPI) Sep 30, 2009 Lake Michigan's food chain is under threat from an invasive fish and biologists are working on ways to keep it out of the lake, university scientists say. A $9 million electric fish barrier keeps Asian carp from migrating between the Mississippi River and the lake and the Army Corps of Engineers just boosted the power, the Milwaukee Journal Gazette reported Wednesday. However, the giant ... more |
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Nairobi (AFP) Sept 28, 2009The Tea Board of Kenya said Monday the country's tea production fell 11.6 percent in the six months to August owing to the ongoing drought. Tea Board Managing Director Sicily Kariuki blamed adverse weather conditions especially in the east of the Rift Valley, where production fell by 32 percent. "We have witnessed prolonged dry weather conditions especially east of the Rift, which would ... more  
Amman (AFP) Sept 27, 2009Jordan has decided to go it alone and build a two-billion-dollar pipeline from the Red Sea to the Dead Sea without help from proposed partners Israel and the Palestinian Authority, an official told AFP. "Jordan is thirsty and cannot wait any longer," said Fayez Batayneh, the country's chief representative in the mega-project to provide drinking water and begin refilling the Dead Sea, which ... more 
Sydney (AFP) Sept 26, 2009An Australian town pulled all bottled water from its shelves Saturday and replaced it with refillable bottles in what is believed to be a world-first ban. Hundreds of people marched through the picturesque rural town of Bundanoon to mark the first day of its bottled water ban by unveiling a series of new public drinking fountains, said campaign spokesman John Dee. ... more |
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